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AFTRS: looking for a new kind of producer
With a reconfigured mashup of the producing and screen business student course, AFTRS is looking for a new round of…
Arresting Audiences: Following the money
The ‘Arresting Audiences’ summit brought together a highly experienced panel for the session, ‘Following the Money’. Where does it come…
The Hobbit: actors threaten international industrial action
NZ Actors' Equity has gone public with a campaign which confronts Sir Peter Jackson, may be legally impossible, could threaten…
Alexandre Brachet: auteurs, insoucience and internet sterf
Alexandre Brachet, French internet expert, stands in his room at the Marriott Hotel in Sydney, and tries to explain himself…
Playpen: Wikileaks, Wikileaks, where do you hide?
Australia's greatest contribution to retributory chaos, Julian Assange, draws on the Dr No techology of the Cold War to defend…
Power: on thin ice
UK independent production and distribution company Power Corp heads for administration at the behest of its bankers, Lloyds. Last year…
Mark Lazarus: pushing on to the promised land
Mark Lazarus is propelling The Loved Ones relentlessly forward, treating time and changing fortunes as mere pebbles on the road…
Video Education Australia: education production versus organised labour
The Australian Writers' Guild and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance are both pressuring Video Education Australia on behalf of…
Box Office: Lou has daytime toehold
Lou, surfing on critical support, a good publicity campaign and daytime television coverage, is caught in the shallows with the…
Melbourne International Animation Festival: nine days of dedication
MIAFF, celebrating its tenth birthday, starts this weekend. The trailer is a lovely example of painting on film. It is…